Social LCA: Measure the real environmental impact of your products and activities
With WeLOOP, you benefit from expert support in integrating Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) into your initiatives and development strategies. The objective is to provide a clear, structured, and actionable understanding of social impacts, enabling more responsible decision-making and ensuring alignment with relevant standards and frameworks.
What is a Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA)?
Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), framed by ISO 14075, enables companies to identify social risks and opportunities within their value chain, strengthen their responsible procurement policies, and integrate social issues into the core of their strategic decision-making.
It makes the human impacts of a product visible throughout its entire life cycle in order to guide more responsible and sustainable decision-making.
Support your reporting and communication
Provide reliable and verifiable social data to meet your reporting requirements and communicate transparently.
Prioritise social audits and certifications.
Identify the most sensitive links in your value chain to focus your efforts and resources where the social impact is greatest.
What does Social Life Cycle Assessment enable for my company?
Inform your design and sourcing decisions
Integrate social considerations from the earliest stages of your projects to design more responsible products and services and select partners aligned with your values.
Strengthen your materiality assessments.
Identify and prioritise the social issues that matter most to your company and stakeholders.
Our Social Life Cycle Assessment
We conduct robust Social Life Cycle Assessments (S-LCAs), tailored to sector-specific challenges and the maturity level of each organization.
Our goal is not simply to generate indicators: we help our clients identify critical areas within their value chain and translate results into operational decisions.
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Rigorous Scoping
We support you in defining the scope, objectives, and reference frameworks, turning a complex methodology into a practical, robust tool tailored to your specific challenges.
Value Chain Impact Assessment
Our approach enables you to map your activities and identify key social issues across your value chain, including working conditions, human rights, health and safety, and supplier relationships.
Actionable Insights for Decision-Making
Risk prioritization, improvement scenarios, support for eco-design, responsible procurement strategies, and monitoring of social performance.
How does a Social Life Cycle Assessment work at WeLOOP?
Definition of objectives and scope
Define the social scope of the assessment: production, distribution, use, and end-of-life.
Identify stakeholders (employees, suppliers, communities, and consumers).
Determine the social indicators to be measured (identification of social hotspots).
Collection and Inventory of Social Data
Gather information through questionnaires, internal and external audits, scientific publications, and social databases.
Quantify the positive and negative impacts on the various stakeholder groups.
Social Impact Assessment
Analysis of potential impacts on the environment, society, and the economy.
Typical impact categories: climate change, water pollution, resource consumption, social impacts.
Interpretation and Recommendations
Analysis of potential social impacts on stakeholders throughout the life cycle.
Typical impact categories: working conditions, health and safety, human rights, equal treatment, social dialogue, impacts on local communities.
Why choose WeLOOP for your social LCA?
+30 LCAs completeds
LCA expertise applied to social issues
Proprietary tested methodology based on primary data
An approach tailored to a wide range of
industries
Our additional services
Focus on selected projects
The electrical and electronic equipment waste stream (WEEE) raises social issues that are often not very visible behind collection and recycling performance indicators. For ECOSYSTEME, WeLOOP carried out a Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) of the end-of-life electronics value chain in France.
This study made it possible to identify both positive impacts and areas for improvement for workers and affected communities, and to compare them with those associated with the primary production of raw materials. The analysis was based on a series of interviews conducted with stakeholders in the sector in order to anchor the results in real-world conditions.
As part of the European CEDaCI project, dedicated to the circular economy of data centres, WeLOOP carried out the social assessment of several server management scenarios studied within a broader sustainability assessment framework. Several dozen workshops and interviews with stakeholders in the sector made it possible to identify the relevant stakeholders and select the most relevant social indicators.
The study covered data centre operators, reuse and recycling actors, as well as supply chains of critical and conventional metals used in the equipment. The results fed into the Circular Data Centre Compass, a decision-support tool integrating environmental, social, and economic dimensions.
As part of direct cocoa sourcing from smallholder farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, WeLOOP conducted an assessment of the positive social impacts (“handprints”) and negative impacts (“footprints”) associated with the project’s activities.
The study was based on data collection involving the farmers directly, as well as interviews with experts, intermediary actors in the supply chain, farmers, and processors.
This approach made it possible to identify the social benefits generated by the project, areas of concern, and opportunities for improvement to strengthen its contribution to the sustainable development of local communities.
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Our Social Life Cycle Assessment experts
Naeem Adibi
Noura Rhabani
Perrine Sébastien